Nominate!

Attention fellow Xixaxers! On this, their twelfth year, the Xixax Awards are entering a new era! One of modesty, of restraint, and indeed, of unprecedented simplicity.

Here's how this will work:

In this very thread, members will suggest nominations. (More on that below.)

Admins will decide final nominees in an authoritarian yet benevolent fashion, greatly drawing on this thread.

We'll post polls for each category, and that will be the final vote.

Past Xixax Awards have involved a long, drawn-out process, and frankly a lot of work from everyone involved. This should make participation virtually effortless, optimized for your fast-paced 21st century lifestyle.

Now there's no reason to be left out. If you care at all about any 2013 movies you've seen, speak up!

Post your nominations here, in any format or quantity you choose. Doesn't matter. This is an informal process. Make several posts if you want to; post what you can think of now, and come back for more later.

Is there an underrated film you're especially passionate about, or an incredible performance that no one is discussing? We're especially interested in those unusual choices to fill out categories.

If there's something you'd like to nominate that's embarrassing or shameful, PM me.

These are the categories. Obviously, suggest nominations for whatever you want. One, two, or all of them. If you're not sure which category a performance belongs in, don't worry about it.

Best Original Music:Inside Llewyn Davis Ain't Them Bodies SaintsPrisoners

Best Debut Film:An Oversimplification of Her Beauty Fruitvale Station

Best Documentary:The Act of KillingThe Missing Picture

Best Trailer:The Great Beauty Post Tenebras Lux Ain't Them Bodies SaintsMother of GeorgeOmar

Best Film Poster:OmarPost Tenebras Lux Ain't Them Bodies Saints

Best TV Show:Top of the LakeBreaking BadBoardwalk Empire (Best acted, photographed, directed & written season of the series)RectifyTrue Detective

Worst Film: (hated these movies with a passion)The Place Beyond the PinesSpring BreakersSightseersA Single Shot The World's End Drinking BuddiesThe Way Way Back Blue Caprice 12 O'Clock BoysBlue Jasmine

Best Film of 2012 (Redux)The Master

"oh you haven’t truly watched a film if you didn’t watch it on the big screen" mumbles the bourgeois dipshit

Act of Killing is eligible, right? The internets credit it as a 2012 release.

Act of Killing was so barely available in 2012 that it definitely counts as a 2013 nominee.

Also, Punch's worst film nominees reminded me that Drinking Buddies definitely deserves a Best Female Perfomance for Olivia Wilde. I never gave her much thought as an actress before, but she was so, so good in that movie. I would also nominate Jake Johnson as a dark horse for Best Male Perfomance.